25 years ago - The Times

Friday, April 29, 1994

PM calls for cultural revolution

Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami yesterday called for a “cultural revolution at all entrepreneurial levels”.

“We must learn to operate on the same basis as entrepreneurs in the rest of Europe,” he told businessmen at a business luncheon at the Chamber of Commerce in Valletta.

The most urgent challenge facing Malta was the need for a change in mentality in certain quarters. “Management must become more professional and there must be more investment in technology to cut production costs and improve quality,” he said.

Il-Porporina cleared of two violent robberies

Alfred Bugeja, known as Il-Porporina, was in England at the time he allegedly committed two violent robberies, it was revealed yesterday.

Magistrate Noel Cuschieri cleared Bugeja, 36, of all charges brought against him.

Police Inspector J. M. Azzopardi had told the court Bugeja had held up Alfred Linwood at his house in Vittoriosa on October 10, 1984 and Carmen and Alfred Brincat at their house in Msida on November 2 in the same year.

Half a century ago - Times of Malta

Tuesday, April 29, 1969

7,000 jobs expected from new industrial estate

Work on the first two phases of the new industrial estate at Bulebel in the limits of Żejtun, started recently. This phase of the project is actually a massive civil engineering programme which will later be followed by the actual erection of factories. The site was yesterday visited by Dr C. Caruana, Minister of Public Building and Works.

TV from Libya

A number of Maltese televiewers have managed to switch into programmes screened by Libyan television through channels five and six using the same antenna as for the Italian national programme. Some of the more enthusiastic televiewers are already experimenting with special antennae facing to the south of Malta.

Chemists for Bari congress

Two Maltese chemists, Mr Alfred Gera de Petri, vice president of the Chamber of Pharmacists, and Mr Eric Zammit, secretary of the Mala Union of Pharmacists, left yesterday to represent the island at the ‘IV Giornale Farmaceutiche Italiane’, in Bari, Italy.